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09 February, 2017

Christianity and Social Change in Contemporary Africa Conference

by: Nellie Kooistra

The Nagel Institute reports that all 23 teams have now completed fieldwork and the drafts of research articles are arriving daily in the office. “We expect to have about 50 completed articles,” reports Joel Carpenter, director of the institute. The “Christianity and Social Change in Contemporary Africa.” program is funded by the John Templeton Foundation. African scholars are addressing religious and social issues that may have been neglected.

Final plans are shaping the 5-12 March 2017 summative conference in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. We will have 70 attendees: team members, members of our expert panels, and invited guests. We plan for 33 presentations from our grantees and four keynote addresses. The keynoters will be Afe Adogame of Princeton Theological Seminary, Emmanuel Katongole of the University of Notre Dame, Harold Netland of Trinity International University, and Fabien Eboussi Boulaga, the Cameroonian theologian and philosopher.

Speaker: Edlyne Anugwom, University of the Western Cape/University of Nigeria

The Boko Haram as an innovative expression of religion in Nigeria: major findings and implications for knowledge and policy

Speaker: Ato Onoma, CODESRIA

Faith and the spatial segregation of interments in Senegal’s Joal Fadiouth commune

Speaker: Henrietta Nyamnjoh, University of Cape Town

When are you going to change those stones to phones? Appropriation of social media by Pentecostal churches in Cape Town

Speaker: Gabriel Faimau, University of Botswana

Socio-religious construction and mediatisation of religious identity: new media and digitalised testimonial narratives among prophetic ministries in Botswana

12:00 PM Lunch Hôtel Belle Côte Restaurant

1:30 PM Director Leadership Banquet Hall

Speaker: Tite Tienou, Trinity Evangelical School

Conversations on publishing and next steps

Speaker: Francis Nyamnjoh, University of Cape Town

Continuation of good publishing and next steps

6:00 PM Closing Banquet Hôtel Belle Côte Restaurant

Saturday, 11 March

10:00 AM Optional Tour Meet at information desk

All day Departures

Sunday, 12 March

All day Final Departures

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